Terrorism Is Terrorism

OPINION

Our Position: Domestic Terrorism Is Just As Contemptible As Attacks By Foreigners.

June 3, 2003|By Fuchsia

The hunt for suspected terrorist bomber Eric Robert Rudolph ended inconspicuously over the weekend. The fugitive was arrested without incident by a rookie police officer as he foraged for food in a rural North Carolina garbage bin.

For five years, Mr. Rudolph was on the lam, the object of an intense, manhunt. And authorities believe that he likely got help from those who share his extremist anti-gay, racist and anti-abortion views.

If true, that's appalling. The crimes of which Mr. Rudolph is accused -- the bombings of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, an abortion clinic in Alabama, and a family-planning clinic and a gay club in Atlanta -- were as deliberate and malicious as crimes committed by international terrorist groups. And they should be prosecuted just as vigorously.